In Sun-day, Moon-Day, Cherry Gilchrist presents the origin of each week day’s name with an accompanying tale that relates (albeit sometimes loosely) to the day. The history is fascinating, especially for people interested in word... Read More

The premise of this book is based on the Mexican belief in the healing power of spirit ancestors. The book starts out slowly, but then gains in emotional strength as a young Mexican girl learns, through her Grandmother’s soothing... Read More

Miles of Smiles is the third book in a Kids Pick the Funniest Poems anthology series. The first two books, Kids Pick the Funniest Poems and A Bad Case of the Giggles, combined have sold nearly 500,000 copies. In the production of this... Read More

"You Can Travel Free" is a comprehensive manual. It might sound outlandish and humorous, but skeptics beware—you really can travel for free and if any traveling techniques or tips even attempt to exist, they are most likely listed in... Read More

Eamon Grennan’s poems seem to slow time. Their occasions are often ordinary enough—a walk with a daughter, watching three boys swim, meditating on a fire—but their language and energy are far from ordinary. Of the various ways to... Read More

The history of Ms. Magazine is inherently fascinating and indisputably an important chapter in the ongoing feminist battle. Yours in Sisterhood sets out to examine feminism (and its varying shades) borne from tensions that Ms. Magazine... Read More

Veterinarian Herb Tanzer’s clients have called him a quack. “Some people leave,” he writes, “others flay me with insults.” All because he’s exposing what he dubs “The Pet Game.” Tanzer’s approach to doctoring pets... Read More

In this lively volume of nine short stories, translator and travelling lesbian sleuth Cassandra Reilly pontificates, potlucks, and puzzles her way across the map: Amsterdam, Hamburg, Dartmoor, Reykjavik and Hawaii. Readers who remember... Read More